St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-20
"AT HOME"
Although a Trifle Early, Invitations Are
Already Out for Guests at Lake
Side Resorts.
Ladies in Washington Who Have Radi-
cal Ideas on the Dress for After
noon Teas.
What the Gilded Youth and the So
ciety Belle Will Wear After
Lent is over.
Two or Three Weddings of Note--A
Long List of Social EVENTS
Personals.

Already Miss Daisy Lovelake has sent
delicate little letters down to her friends in
st. Louis, New Orleans. Memphis, Louis
vile, and other Southern cities. inviting
them to take advantage of the delcously
cool water resorts OF Minnesota. and they
VIII gladly respond by acceptance. Thus
the Lafayette, the ST. Louis and the Cha
tauguay are to become the great centerS of
Minnesota and Southern society The
summer season will come, there will be
moonlight and sunny sails upon the limpd
lakes; tables at the hotels will be surrounded
by residents of nearly every state in the
Union; harmless tiirtations will be INDUCED
in and pathetic romanceS enacted; but the
heat of the Suitry South will be avoided. and
while some MinneSOtanS torture themselves
with the crowded beaches of the Atlantic
coast, Soutnerners will be having cool
time at White Bear and Minnetonka.
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What exquisite things they are now get
ting up for Easter cards. There are all
sorts of novelties, new ideas and original
designs. Like everything else, however,
fashion imperously dictates that there
shall be one kind of cards, which is to be
particularly 1.-The thing" These are pretty
crenulated cards, bearing dainty hand
painted pictu.es in water colors, with short
Easter greetings and notices. The most
common type of artistic design is an oblique
cross in various colorS wreathed and sprayed
with flowers, emblematic of springtide in
ChrlStendom. Then there are crosses of
thorns in gold and silver, with golden
heads of Speared wheat. or 1t may be the
simple picture of nest of eggs. Another
beautiful card is of richly tinted paper,
with heart of ivorine, upon which is a
vision of a virgin face. illuminated with an
expression of hope and gladness. There
are some dainty things i'll satin, but the
style this Easter is to be paper cards. and
little paper folios and books.
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Will the young maiden. who now pines
for Easter. accompanied by petite bonnet
surmounted by huge bouquets or punches of
feathers, just go back in thought to the days
of hoops and mutfs. 1t was once thought
that the toilet was incomplete without the
essential mutf, which, thanks to this day of
progression. has been displaced by gigantic
mousquetaires and SUICIDES. The mutf first
put in an appearance i'll the Sixteenth CEN
fury. The widow of Nicolai, says the San
Francisco ATgonaut, left, when she departed
this world. lone velvet mutf lined with
sable" And at Venice the same paper
recollectS the trace of a ''muff toward the
end Of the Fifteenth century," The paint
ing by Sir John Reynolds of THE Young
Girl With a Mutf, " made him famous, while
there is pretty charm in Gainborough's
portrait of Mrs. Siddons IN 1884.
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All sorts of neckties all varieties of
scarfs, of diverse hues, looking like decor
alton bunting, gaudily exposed and in
geniously tied at the throat, are to be worn
by young gentlemen during this coming
spring and summer. Then the vests are to
be low and the-trowsers legs loose. Frilleu.
corded and shirred shirt fronts will climax
the burlesque. The only comfortable thing
to be worn that is not tempered with is the
straw hat. .----''''''
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If the absurdities Of the fashion must be
chrOncled, some reference might be made
to the provoking way the young ladies at
Washington had of wearing their finest
toilets while attempting to assist some more
intelligent matron at tea parties and after
noon receptions. A pretty girl was dis
tinguished and recollected by the one fact
that she was 1.-The one who wears the ball
dress in the afternoon, and .pours tea,
in tulle." Just fancy girl attired in
hvmeneal tulle, while waiting upon the
table, and pouring tea for her more somber
and practical gentleman friends. With lace
and tulle. costumes decolletessand en- traine,
it must have been fascinating and aggra-
waiting vision. And indeed, the contagion
of this thing spread to some Western cities.
But its prOvocatlon was intensified when a
huffly attired miss, after a miserable fail
ure and several awkward gyratiOnS in her
endeavors to assist at tea. innocently in
quired if she might be permitted to perform
the same service at the next event.